Definition of steal

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Steal (v. t.) To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.

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Osteal :: Osteal (a.) Osseous.
Manstealing :: Manstealing (n.) The act or business of stealing or kidnaping human beings, especially with a view to e/slave them..
Thievish :: Thievish (a.) Like a thief; acting by stealth; sly; secret.
Peculate :: Peculate (v. i.) To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.
Stealth :: Stealingly (adv.) By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion..
Unhoard :: Unhoard (v. t.) To take or steal from a hoard; to pilfer.
Stabling :: Stable stand () The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the king's deer..
Bone :: Bone (v. t.) To steal; to take possession of.
Prohibit :: Prohibit (v. t.) To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits stealing..
Steelhead :: Steeler (n.) Same as Stealer.
Prowl :: Prowl (v. i.) To rove or wander stealthily, esp. for prey, as a wild beast; hence, to prey; to plunder..
Lurch :: Lurch (v. t.) To steal; to rob.
Stealthy :: Stealthlike (a.) Stealthy; sly.
Sneak :: Sneak (v. i.) To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company..
Cutpurse :: Cutpurse (n.) One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocke.
Stole :: Steal (n.) A handle; a stale, or stele..
Otosteal :: Otosteal (n.) An auditory ossicle.
Kidnapper :: Kidnapper (n.) One who steals or forcibly carries away a human being; a manstealer.
Thieve :: Thieve (v. t. & i.) To practice theft; to steal.
Encroach :: Encroach (v. i.) To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach on the highway..
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